Dr. Max Brinsmead .... a Life Sketch ...

..... Pam and Max in 2008 .....

..... Pam and Max in 2006 .....

..... Pam and Max's wedding in 1970 with
Austin Grillmeier as best man and
Marjorie Lane (Mee Lee) the matron of honour
at their wedding in the Tweed Heads Adventist Church. ...

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Max Brinsmead ...

Life Sketch for QUSDAS Reunion

I was a QUSDAS member from 1965 to 1970 whilst I was studying Medicine at the University of Queensland. I lived in The Shack on Moggill Rd, The Gap, the country estate of the late Cyril Evans and family with Clyde Rock, Wes Allen , Austin Grillmeier and a number of other QUSDAS fellows.

In 1970 I married Pamela Chung Lun whom I met at a Sydney Convention at Crosslands in 1967. The relationship was cemented at C67, the convention we ran at Maranatha in 1967. Austin Grillmeier was our best man and Marjorie Lane (Mee Lee) the matron of honour at our wedding in the Tweed Heads Adventist Church.

Pam and I lived in Brisbane from 1971 to 1974 where our eldest son Thomas was born in 1973. Pam worked at the Institute of Child Guidance at Spring Hill until she became a mother. I completed my training in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Royal Womens Hospital, Herston.

In 1975 we moved to Auckland, New Zealand where our eldest daughter Kim was born. I obtained a PhD in my chosen field of fetal endocrinology. We met up with Gary Martin in Lake Taupo where he was living, practising and skiing.

In 1978 we returned to Brisbane where I worked in the Department of Physiology at the University of Queensland and at the Royal Womens Hospital. We lived at Kenmore, Bellbowrie and Taringa and attended the Central Church where important friendships were made with Peter and Mel Lambert and Len and Beth Mayfields. Two more children were added to our family, Peter in 1979 and Felicity in 1980.

In 1981 we moved to Newcastle, NSW where I was Lecturer in the newly established medical school. We attended the Charlestown church for a while in Newcastle but gradually drifted away. I established a working relationship with another Adventist obstetrician and gynaecologist, Steve Raymond and, in 1990, we both left the university and began a private practice in rooms that we built together at Lambton. I was simultaneously the Director of Obstetrics at the John Hunter Hospital.

We spent 19 years in Newcastle but, as soon as our youngest daughter finished her secondary schooling, Pam and I sold the family home from under their feet, moved out and went to England for 12 months. Pam and I had a wonderful time in Sheffield where I worked at a local IVF Clinic. We developed our love of walking in the Peak District.

In 2000 I returned to a private practice in Coffs Harbour where we still have our primary place of residence. Pam and I worked hard at that for 6 years but we gave up that practice also in August 2006. Since then I have been working part time as a locum at hospitals throughout NSW and as a volunteer in Mt Hagan, New Guinea. In August 2007 we returned to Sheffield, England where we have spent another memorable 12 months, working a little (on the Isle of Man) but mostly just travelling and walking and enjoying England, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria etc. A sample of our recent lives can be found at http://www.brinsmead.net.au/14.html.

Our eldest three children are married. Thomas has a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics. He is an environmental strategist with the CSIRO in Newcastle, Kim has a degree in Radiography and works as an ultrasonographer in Sydney, Peter has a degree in Arts but chooses to work in a Mom & Pop-type supermarket in Deloraine, Tasmania while Felicity is a graphic artist who has just returned to Sydney after traveling in the UK and Ireland for a couple of years. We have one adopted grandchild, Jesse, who lives with his parents in Deloraine.

In 2009 I am looking forward to working on our 6-acre citrus farm in Nimbin NSW and maybe doing a little more work in my specialty of obstetrics and gynaecology in Papua New Guinea, Newcastle or New Zealand. We shall continue to travel as much as we can.

Max Brinsmead

July 3, 2008

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He says on his website below: 'I am an Australian specialist obstetrician and gynaecologist with 35 years of clinical experience in my discipline. I also have teaching, research and administrative experience'.

He also says: 'Pam and I have recently been touring in Germany, France etc. See: http://www.brinsmead.net.au/14.html

It is just wonderful to be reading then to have the option to click on a word and a whole photograph appears.

Also click on the staff portraits and up will come current photographs of Max and Pam.

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The Brinsmead Family Line at:

http://www.brinsmead.net

Documenting the Brinsmead family from early times in Somerset, England, through an early emigration to the Americas, as well as three centuries in North Devon. Exploring their migrations to Canada, the U.S.A. and Australia. Tracing as well the family's English fortunes including the development of the Brinsmead Piano businesses.

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